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Kwame named construction manager for St. Louis Community College Project

Kwame Building Group has been named construction manager and owner’s representative on a new $10 million facility for St. Louis Community College’s William J. Harrison Northside Education Center in St. Louis. The approximately 30,000-square-foot project will include classroom facilities. Construction is scheduled to begin in winter 2009 and be completed in 2010. read more..

SunCoke Energy plant selects Guarantee Electrical

Guarantee Electrical has been selected to perform electrical work at the new $290 million SunCoke Energy Inc. plant in Granite City, IL. Guarantee Electrical, which has a long-standing partnership with U.S. Steel, is serving as electrical contractor, with 80 to 90 electricians on-site at peak production. Source: Saint Louis Construction News and Real Estate

Using Recycled Shipping Containers as Building Blocks for Green Construction

Leslie Guevarra of Greener Buildings reports on the Lawrence Group’s eco-friendly model home built of shipping containers, which is featured at the West Coast Green conference. Amid neck-craning stacks of shipping containers at an Alameda depot, a building crew has worked for the past two weeks to fashion an eco-friendly, two-story structure from five recycled read more..

Local Kwame Building Group is construction manager on Pittsburgh light rail project

St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group is serving as construction manager for the $435 million Port Authority of Allegheny County’s North Shore Connector project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. KWAME is part of the joint venture called TriGold, which includes Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, California and HDR, an architectural and engineering firm of Omaha, Nebraska. The new 1.2 mile read more..

Construction fatalities fell in 2007

On-the-job fatalities in construction were down 5% in 2007, but the decline was less than other industries and the highest of any sector, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The construction industry had 1,178 workplace deaths last year, down 5% from 2006. Construction has reported the most fatal work injuries of any read more..

California refinery Valero Energy recognizes Guarantee Electrical’s safety record

Valero Energy Corporation–Benicia has recognized Guarantee Electrical for its outstanding safety record at the company’s Benicia, California refinery through their “Contractor of the Year Safety Award for Large Contractors.” St. Louis-based Guarantee Electrical has provided electrical maintenance, service, instrumentation and electrical construction on capital projects for the refinery since 1969. read more…

American Concrete Pavement Association recognizes Kwame Building Group/Green Joint Venture Project

The American Concrete Pavement Association has recognized Kwame Building Group/Green Joint Venture for their work on the reconstruction of taxiway F, L & S at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The project was rated the “best commercial service and military airport concrete paving project completed in Missouri in 2007.” A St. Louis-based program and construction management read more..

Architecture firms find happiness in pro bono

Tim Rowbottom, a principal with St. Louis-based Lawrence Group, was named in an article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch about pro-bono architecture work. Rowbottom designed the interior for the Downtown Children’s Center in St. Louis on his first day at work and has been donating time to the project for four years. Several architects read more..

KWAME to manage Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Renovations

St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group has been named program management consultant for the Airport Experience Program, a renovations campaign at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Over a five-year period, the airport’s terminal, concourse and passenger support facilities will undergo renovations. Restoration of the airport’s domed ceilings will begin in mid-July; additionally, replacement of the interior baggage system read more..

Lawrence Group completes green HQ for Kirberg in St. Louis

Lawrence Group has completed the redevelopment of Kirberg Co.’s 44,000-square-foot headquarters and distribution facility in St. Louis. Lawrence Group provided design/build services for the redevelopment of the historic property, which contains office and warehouse space. The two-story building achieved LEED certification with sustainable features such as bamboo flooring, motion-sensor lighting, maximized natural light, the use of read more..